From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 29 15:45:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA15547 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:45:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mersey.nt.tas.gov.au (mersey.nt.tas.gov.au [147.109.247.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA15535 for ; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:45:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sdd@ntccc.tas.gov.au) Received: from pc62 (pc62.ntccc.tas.gov.au [147.109.247.187]) by mersey.nt.tas.gov.au (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id KAA29711; Fri, 30 Oct 1998 10:37:05 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from sdd@ntccc.tas.gov.au) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19981030104420.00a1cba0@mersey.nt.tas.gov.au> X-Sender: sdd@mersey.nt.tas.gov.au X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 10:44:20 +1100 To: "Steve Friedrich" From: Scott Donovan Subject: Re: Windows NT Serial Communication Driver Cc: "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" , "Timothy J Luoma" In-Reply-To: <199810292333.SAA32666@laker.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>> > On a side note, shouldn't this mailing list be configured to not allow >>> > posts from people who aren't subscribed to it? >>> >>> Basically, no. >>> >>> Why should someone who just wants to ask a question have to subscribe to >>> the list and be required to receive tons of email every day? >> >>So that those of us who are subscribed don't have to put up with the crap >>from spammers on a regular basis. Would it be a good idea then to implement RBL spammer blocking on the various Sendmail servers that host the lists? That way non subscribe people can post but known spammers will be blocked (not a perfect solution, but perhaps a happy compromise?) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message